Shaul Mukamel
{{Short description|Israeli chemist}}
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| name = Shaul Mukamel
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1948|12|11}}
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| nationality = American
| field = Physical Chemistry
| education = Tel Aviv University
| workplaces = Tel Aviv University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California-Berkeley
Rice University
Weizmann Institute of Science
University of Rochester
University of California at Irvine
| known_for = Nonlinear Optics, attosecond spectroscopy
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| prizes = Willis E. Lamb Award
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Shaul Mukamel (born 11 December 1948) is a chemist and physicist, currently serving as a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine.{{cite web|url=http://mukamel.ps.uci.edu/bio.html|title=The Mukamel Group: Bio|website=mukamel.ps.uci.edu|accessdate=December 1, 2019}} He is known for his works in non linear optics and spectroscopy.
Early life and education
Shaul Mukamel was born in Baghdad, Iraq on December 11, 1948.{{cite journal|last=Mukamel|first=Shaul|date=2011-05-12|title=Autobiography of Shaul Mukamel|journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry B|language=en|volume=115|issue=18|pages=5039–5046|doi=10.1021/jp202339s|pmid=21542651|issn=1520-6106}} Mukamel received his B.Sc. degree in 1969, with the distinction cum laude and his M.Sc. and Ph.D., both summa cum laude, in 1971 and 1976 respectively from Tel Aviv University. His Masters supervisor was Uzi Kaldor. He finished his PhD working under Joshua Jortner. Following graduation, Mukamel served as postdoc at MIT and the University of California, Berkeley.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambaward.org/2013/2013-mukamel.html|title=The 2013 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics|accessdate=December 1, 2019}}{{dl|date=August 2024}}
Career
Mukamel has worked at Rice University and the Weizmann Institute before joining University of Rochester, where he worked from 1982 to 2003. He has been at University of California, Irvine since then.{{cite news|url=https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S48/82/94G59/index.xml?section=science|title=Lead dressed like gold: Laser-altered molecules cast alchemy in a different light|author=Tien Nguyen|date=February 28, 2017|publisher=Princeton University|accessdate=December 1, 2019}}{{cite news|url=https://phys.org/news/2016-05-theorists-smooth-quantum-friction.html|title=Theorists smooth the way to modeling quantum friction|date=May 16, 2016|website=Phys.org|accessdate=December 1, 2019}}
Mukamel is known for his work in the field of nonlinear optics, especially the time domain extensions which culminated in the book entitled Principles of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy (1995). His works covers topics ranging from excitons to multi-dimensional spectroscopy, and femto– and attosecond spectroscopy. During his career, he has published more than 1000 scientific papers.{{cn|date=August 2024}}
Mukamel has received prizes and distinctions including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award,{{cite news|url=http://www.rochester.edu/currents/V25/V25N18/story4.html|title=Shaul Mukamel wins Humboldt Award|publisher=University of Rochester|volume=25|number=18}} the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics,{{cite web|url=https://ps.uci.edu/node/49266|title=Hamburg Prize in Theoretical Physics|accessdate=December 1, 2019}} and the Ahmed Zewail ACS Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology.{{cite web|url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i6/Ahmed-Zewail-Award-Ultrafast-Science.html|author=Rick Mullin|title=Ahmed Zewail Award In Ultrafast Science & Technology|publisher=American Chemical Society|volume=93|issue=6|date=February 9, 2015|pages=32–33}}
Awards and honors
- 1987 – Fellow of the American Physical Society{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1987&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archive|publisher=American Physical Society|accessdate=December 1, 2019}}
- 1996 – Guggenheim Fellowship{{cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/shaul-mukamel/|title=Shaul Mukamel|publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation|accessdate=December 1, 2019}}
- 2003 – Ellis R. Lippincott Award{{cite web|url=https://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/awards/award_description/ellislippincott/|title=Ellis R. Lippincott Award|publisher=The Optical Society of America|accessdate=December 1, 2019}}
- 2011 – Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Mukamel&first_nm=Shaul&year=2011|title=Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics|publisher=American Physical Society|accessdate=December 1, 2019}}
- 2012 – Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics
- 2013 – Willis E. Lamb Award
- 2013 – Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences{{cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/shaul-mukamel|title=Shaul Mukamel|accessdate=December 1, 2019}}
- 2015 – Member of the National Academy of Sciences{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20035976.html|title=Shaul Mukamel|publisher=National Academy olf Sciences|accessdate=December 1, 2019}}
- 2017 – William F. Meggers Award in Spectroscopy{{cite web|url=https://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/awards/award_description/meggersaward/|title=William F. Meggers Award in Spectroscopy|publisher=The Optical Society of America|accessdate=December 1, 2019}}
- 2024 – Raman Lifetime Award{{cn|date=August 2024}}
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Category:Fellows of Optica (society)
Category:Humboldt Research Award recipients
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences